Two security guards have been killed by a man armed with a knife outside Sudan's presidential palace in the capital Khartoum, officials say.
The attacker seized one of the guards' weapons before other guards killed him, a presidential spokesman said.
He said the man appeared to be

November 9, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese police have freed six Eritrean nationals who were abducted by a human trafficking gang in the state of Kassala in eastern Sudan following fierce armed confrontation.
The hostages were found chained to each other in east Atbara River area

Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, was an Italian colony between 1890 and 1941. The city was populated by a large Italian community (53,000 of 98,000 inhabitants in 1939), so the architecture is a unique blend of Italian modernism and Eritrean style. Here are the

By Mathieu Bonkougou and Nadoun Coulibaly
OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's opposition parties and the African Union rejected the army's seizure of power in the West African country on Saturday after the resignation of President Blaise Compaore, setting the stage for fresh protests.
The military

NEW YORK (28 October 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, expressed alarm about continuing human rights violations in the country resulting in mass departures. She warned the UN General Assembly about the high number of children fleeing from Eritrea

News from inside Eritrea - October 28, 2014
Pamphlets were distributed in the town of Tesenei (Western Eritrea) containing messages from Eritrean Solidarity Movement for National Salvation (Simret). The pamphlets that have been distributed several times in and around Tesenei were written in Arabic and Tigrigna calling for

Nineteen officers and members of the Eritrean Naval Force have defected to Djibouti in the past few weeks.
According to our sources, head of squadron Lieutenant Biniam Gebreselasie; Department Head of the Electricity Department of the Halieb Boat Factory Habtom Ghebrekidan; and Head of the Technical

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen countries have alarming levels of hunger, with Burundi the worst affected, according to an annual index released on Monday which also reveals that 2 billion people worldwide suffer from "hidden hunger".
Hidden hunger, which is a lack of vitamins and

(Reuters) - Italy's Mediterranean Sea mission, which has rescued more than 90,000 migrants in the past year, will go on, the prime minister said on Friday, vowing to continue navy patrols a year after a shipwreck that killed hundreds sparked international outrage.
Italy has repeatedly called

(ANSA) - Vatican City, October 1 - Pope Francis on Wednesday had a private and reportedly emotional audience in the Vatican with a group of migrants who survived a shipwreck near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa a year ago.
The pontiff called on European men

29 September 2014 – Amid forced conscription, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, the human rights situation in Eritrea continues to remain “dire,” a United Nations independent expert warned, adding that a new Commission of Inquiry would help “pave the way” to accountability.
“The creation of my

In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers why Eritreans endanger themselves so much to reach Europe.
The Mediterranean is fast becoming a massive watery grave for Africans.
Another 500 reportedly drowned off the coast of Italy the other week, while

Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org)
Press release
23 September 2014
ERITREA
Swedish prosecutor abandons journalist imprisoned in Eritrea
The prosecutor has declined to pursue the case of a journalist with Eritrean and Swedish citizenship held in Eritrea since 2001
Reporters Without Borders is appalled that the Swedish judicial authorities are abandoning Dawit

About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said.
Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that the boat had been intentionally sunk by traffickers.
They said the boat had left

Libyan navy officials say only 26 people have been rescued so far on vessel carrying up to 250 migrants.
Last updated: 15 Sep 2014 09:08
A boat filled with up to 250 migrants heading for Europe has sunk off the Libyan coast and many passengers have died, a spokesman

Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says.
They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained unlawfully, a new report says.
Earlier this year, African asylum seekers in

“I can confirm that a foreign diplomat has been ordered to leave the country but I can’t go into the reasons,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Charlotta Ozaki Macías told the TT news agency.
The ministry has a policy of not revealing the nationality of diplomats ejected from

Expulsions believed to be linked to government fears that Iranian officials were promoting Shia Islam in majority-Sunni country
The Guardian: Khalid Abdel Aziz in Khartoum
Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. The country is subject to economic sanctions, partly linked to its conflict in Darfur. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
Sudan has

A Swiss court recently permitted an Eritrean asylum seeker to enter Switzerland, in an effort to prevent the man from being held in an Israeli detention center.
A three-judge panel of the Swiss Federal Administrative Court accepted the man’s appeal against a Swiss government decision to

Libyan rescuers have recovered the bodies of around 170 people after a boat carrying illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank at sea last week, a Coast Guard official said on Monday.
“We freed about 100 bodies trapped in the hold of the 16-metre wooden boat which

The European Union's Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said she was "appalled" by reports that migrants had died trying to cross the Mediterranean to get to Italy as six more migrants died in a shipwreck on Sunday night.
"I am appalled by these new tragedies at

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 22, 2014 (SHIRE, ETHIOPIA) – Eritrean border guards have allegedly shot dead 10 Eritreans citizens as they attempted to cross in to Ethiopia, a recent escapee told Sudan Tribuneon Friday.
Samuel Gedion said he was among a group of 18 Eritreans who were trying to

La Stampa Italian Newspaper says: "On board a barge 200 immigrants. Among the victims, all Somali and Eritrean, also a child"
TRIPOLI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A wooden boat carrying up to 200 migrants has sunk just one kilometer (half a mile) off the Libyan coast,

A girl aged 16 along with two other 25 years old women, all illegal immigrants from Eritrea were picked up on the M6 while taking selfies have been arrested & were transferred into the immigration custody, at the weekend. However, the 16 year old minor

Nguse Amlosom of Eritrea made history by winning his country’s medal at the African Senior Athletics Championships after taking the men’s 10,000m gold medal on the first day of competition in Marrakech, Morocco.
Amlosom, who finished eighth in the 25-lap event at the 2013 World Championships and 15th

An investigation is under way after a lorry containing 15 people, including a 15-year-old boy, was discovered at a service station in Ilminster, near Taunton, police have said.
A man from Germany has been arrested on suspicion of facilitating the unlawful entry of people into the

Israeli Mob Beat Eritrean Refugee and Leave him Unconscious in Tel Aviv
By Gianluca Mezzofiore | ibtimes.co.uk | August 19, 2014
An angry Israeli mob has reportedly beaten a 23-year-old Eritrean refugee in Tel Aviv's new Central Bus Station, leaving him unconscious and on the verge of dying.
The young man's

The justice minister Karen Hækkerup has announced that she wants to look into the increasing number of asylum-seekers hailing from the east African country of Eritrea.
Last month Denmark experienced 510 asylum seekers from Eritrea, compared to an average of about ten per month during the

By Mohamed Taha Tewekel, Wednesday, August 13, 2014
ADDIS ABABA – Djibouti on Wednesday called for the release of a military officer allegedly captured by the Eritrean army.
"Eritrea must release the military officer it captured on July 25," the Djiboutian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry

Abu Abdullah, a 20-year-old British Eritrean man who is a convert to Islam, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme he was "one of the few" British fighters to have fought in Iraq.
Read More: BBC- Briton says he has been fighting alongside militants in Iraq

Current Situation of Eritrea
Red Sea Afar people mainly youth and women are fleeing the country. This is not the routine fleeing the country experience, but new condition is that the daily number fleeing the repressive regime has increased significantly. The daily reports of persons fleeing